Park Quotes

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. (Charlie Chaplin)
We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun - together. View quote
Walt Disney
I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place. View quote
Steven Wright
I'm not Hans Christian Andersen. Nobody's gonna make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won't have it, okay? View quote
Maurice Sendak
Television was supposed to be a national park. Instead it has become a money machine. It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies. View quote
Fred W. Friendly
In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent. View quote
Roman Polański
Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write War and Peace in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling. View quote
Stanley Kubrick
A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand. View quote
Renzo Piano
This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it. View quote
John C. Reilly
I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy. View quote
Carter Burwell
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings. (Henry Mayhew)
I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances. View quote
Lee Ann Womack
So when people go to the park this summer, they are not going to have the same quality of a visit. There is not going to be a ranger out on the trail to tell them about the important cultural and historic areas within the Olympic National Park. View quote
Norm Dicks
I have added some ploughmen to the landscape form the park pales which is a great help, but I must try and warm the picture a little more if I can... but I look to do a great deal better in future. I am determined to finish a small picture in the spot for every one I intend to make in future. But this I have always talked about but never yet done – I think however my mind is more settled and determined than ever on this point. View quote
John Constable
If the national park idea is the best idea America ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea. View quote
Wallace Stegner
You have something on your neck. What Looks like a bite mark, what were you doing out all night, anyway? Nothing. I went walking in the park. Tried to clear my head. And ran into a vampire What? No! I fell. On your neck? View quote
Cassandra Clare
Maybe it's the remnants of my religious upbringing, but I do try and insert a sense of social justice into the work ... for instance, to me, Mansfield Park is a story about servitude and slavery. Other people may have a problem with that, but that's how I read the book and so that's how I shot the movie. View quote
Patricia Rozema
Of all the sights and sounds which attracted me on my first arrival to live in London in the mid-thirties, one combined operation left a lingering, individual spell. I naturally went to Hyde Park to hear the orators, the best of the many free entertainments on offer in the capital. I heard the purest milk of the world flowing, then as now, from the platform of the Socialist Party of Great Britain. View quote
Michael Foot
The 1980s will seem like a walk in the park when compared to new global challenges, where annual productivity increases of 6% may not be enough. A combination of software, brains, and running harder will be needed to bring that percentage up to 8% or 9%. View quote
Jack Welch
Arise Evans had a fungous nose, and said, it was revealed to him, that the King's hand would cure him, and at the first coming of King Charles II into St. James's Park, he kissed the King's hand, and rubbed his nose with it; which disturbed the King, but cured him. View quote
John Aubrey
Happy will be the men who, having the power and the love and the benevolent forecast to [create a park], will do it. They will not be forgotten. The trees and their lovers will sing their praises, and generations yet unborn will rise up and call them blessed. (John Muir)
Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark. View quote
Isaac Leib Peretz
your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. View quote
Anthony Bourdain
It was sweaty Whitney (Houston) in Central Park. She knew that park pretty well. Every bush! View quote
Kathy Griffin
I say to my colleague from New York that if someone who has a concealed carry permit... in the State of South Dakota that goes to New York and is in Central Park -- Central Park is a much safer place. View quote
John Thune